Sunday, October 7, 2007


PHANTOM THOUGHTS

Every once in a while, my brain gets cluttered with phantom thoughts that keep more productive and kinder ones away......so I've got to get rid of them, which is why I started this blog in the first place.

Question: why do people advertise stuff being about HEALTH when it always turns out to be about ILLNESS? Like a WELLNESS magazine that when you open it, discusses the signs of lung cancer.......or a HEALTH FAIR where people want to talk to you about glaucoma operations and psychotropic drugs for your depressive relatives?

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Why are Americans so ready to descend into a total hatefest for wealthy, successful, famous individuals like Michael Jackson and Britney Spears? Wouldn't it be a whole lot better to try to cultivate compassion and understanding for people about whom we know nothing at all, except that they're acting kinda nutsy after ubiquitous camera crews and highly-invasive journalists have been following them around like vultures?

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How come I feel more at home in airports and among the strangers there, than I do among my friends and work-associates?

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What do you think of my new-found label, when, after I had tried really hard to talk with a woman who simply refused to communicate anything meaningful, I later described her to someone else, as
"a person who wears an emotional burka"

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